Cover -- CONTENTS -- EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD -- Special issue introduction -- Between a rock and a hard place -- Work-based learning and continuing professional development -- Developing the health care workforce -- University of Wolverhampton case study -- Engaging with employers in work-based learning -- A work-based learning approach to developing leadership for senior health and social care professionals -- Tripartite assessment of learners during practice placements in midwifery pre-registration programmes -- Using a skills bank for work-based learning -- Delivering distance education for modern government: the F4Gov programme.